"(he taps his brow) But in here it is I must kill the priest and the king."

— Joyce, James (1882-1941)


Work Title
Place of Publication
Paris
Publisher
Shakespeare and Company
Date
1922
Metaphor
"(he taps his brow) But in here it is I must kill the priest and the king."
Metaphor in Context
STEPHEN
(laughs emptily) My centre of gravity is displaced. I have forgotten the trick. Let us sit down somewhere and discuss. Struggle for life is the law of existence but but human philirenists, notably the tsar and the king of England, have invented arbitration. (he taps his brow) But in here it is I must kill the priest and the king.
(p. 481)
Provenance
Reading
Citation
James Joyce, Ulysses, eds. H.W. Gabler, W. Steppe, and C. Melchior (New York: Vintage, 1984).
Date of Entry
06/17/2011

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.